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Railway-travelling was, too, something of a novelty to him nowadays; and he sat idly watching the landscape unroll, and thinking of nothing in particular. The train was running through mile after mile of flat, treeless country, liberally sprinkled with trapstones and clumps of tussock grass, which at a distance could be mistaken for couched sheep.
He certainly cared infinitely and incomparably more for his reputation such as he wished it to be, pure, dignified, and honored than for wealth; his only desire about money, often expressed, was "not to have to think about it." Popularity of "The Intellectual Life." Love of animals. English visitors. Technical notes. Sir F. Seymour Haden. Attempts to resume railway-travelling.
To her the sea was a terror, but railway-travelling was repose, and Browning suggested on the way from Marseilles to Paris that they might "ride, ride together, for ever ride" during the remainder of their lives in a first-class carriage with for-ever renewed supplies of French novels and Galignanis.
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